What are you reading?

[birdman]

Read the whole trilogy this past winter.
Not as good as his other stuff.
I agree that Blood Meridian is his best. In fact, one of my personal favorite reads ever!

[sprobeck]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

[birdman]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

[rowjimmy]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

There have been a few books that I re-read to make up for my lack of interest in high school...

Catch 22 being the first that comes to mind.

[Mr Minor]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Really don't like that book.  Never really enjoyed it and it makes me throw up a little in my mouth to thikn about reading it.

But I hope you enjoy it.   

[kellerb]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

I cheated with both of those and hit up the cliff's notes after a couple chapters.  Made them much more comprehensible.

[sprobeck]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

I cheated with both of those and hit up the cliff's notes after a couple chapters.  Made them much more comprehensible.

yeah, it's crazy. I think I tried to read it before. There are a lot of jumps in the story between different things happening. You have the italic and the non italic...

[kellerb]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

I cheated with both of those and hit up the cliff's notes after a couple chapters.  Made them much more comprehensible.

yeah, it's crazy. I think I tried to read it before. There are a lot of jumps in the story between different things happening. You have the italic and the non italic...

I forget which one has a [retarded] narrator in 1st-person perspective for the 1st 1/4 of the book, but that's what made me seek out a synopsis.  It helped a bunch.

[sprobeck]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

I cheated with both of those and hit up the cliff's notes after a couple chapters.  Made them much more comprehensible.

yeah, it's crazy. I think I tried to read it before. There are a lot of jumps in the story between different things happening. You have the italic and the non italic...

I forget which one has a [retarded] narrator in 1st-person perspective for the 1st 1/4 of the book, but that's what made me seek out a synopsis.  It helped a bunch.

It's the Sound and The Fury that has the retarded character.  I picked it out because it had a really cool cover and Faulkner is mentioned in the last Woody Allen movie I watched.  I saw As I Lay Dying in the same section at Borders. Might have to get it next time.  

[cactusfan]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

There have been a few books that I re-read to make up for my lack of interest in high school...

Catch 22 being the first that comes to mind.

Catch 22 may be my favorite book of all time.

[Mr Minor]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

I cheated with both of those and hit up the cliff's notes after a couple chapters.  Made them much more comprehensible.

Cliff's notes?


It's a little known fact...

[Mr Minor]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

There have been a few books that I re-read to make up for my lack of interest in high school...

Catch 22 being the first that comes to mind.

Catch 22 may be my favorite book of all time.

The first chapter is pure literary hilarity. 

[rowjimmy]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

There have been a few books that I re-read to make up for my lack of interest in high school...

Catch 22 being the first that comes to mind.

Catch 22 may be my favorite book of all time.

The first chapter is pure literary hilarity. 

I now love that book. Didn't care to think about it in High School. I read Moby Dick for fun but didn't want to read Catch 22 because it was assigned.



As for the present, I just finished Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy.
It was great.

Well, maybe not great.

But good.

Entertaining.

[cactusfan]

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner. Just started. Cool style--Southern.

Nice. I just started "As I lay dying".
I remember "reading" it in Highschool. Figure I'll give it a real read-through this time.

There have been a few books that I re-read to make up for my lack of interest in high school...

Catch 22 being the first that comes to mind.

Catch 22 may be my favorite book of all time.

The first chapter is pure literary hilarity. 

as is every chapter thereafter.

[Gol D. Roger]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Guess i'll have to check out Blood Meridian after this  :-)